U.S. Customs and Border Protection declined to comment on the incident.

“While we are not at liberty to discuss an individual’s processing due to the Privacy Act, our CBP officers are charged with enforcing not only immigration and customs laws, but they also enforce over 400 laws for 40 other agencies and have stopped thousands of violators of U.S. law,” the agency said in a statement.

Interfering with flight crew is considered a violation of federal law.